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I'm not from a generation of kids that grew up on a Mac.

Paula Scher

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Paula Scher
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 6
Designer
Graphic Designer
Painter
Teacher
Washington
District of Columbia
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Macs

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The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.
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Design really can be anything.
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I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design normthat I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.
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Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.
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It could be that going to work is better than being home. But you should never think of days as the weekend. It should all be the same, it should all be stuff you want to do. And when it isn't then you have to change it, and you have to think about how you change it.
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The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.
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If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.
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What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.
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Great design is serious, not solemn
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Identities are the beginning of everything. They are how something is recognized and understood. What could be better than that?
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I get to work on things I've never done before and I get better at it, and I can do things that are innovative. Which I've done in my fifties, and want to continue to do through my sixties.
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I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.
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Planning involves considering how other people may use something.
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Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved
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You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.
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You can't say there shouldn't be marketing and (that) marketing is a bad thing.
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As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction.
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Words have meaning, type has spirit.
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All the little risks I took were sort of like all the apartments I had moved into: I was finding the right spot.
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New Zealand looks like the future to me
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